Tissue grafting
A tooth can appear “too long” for a number of reasons. Sometimes, with tooth eruption, the right amount of tissue didn’t follow the tooth. Other times, teeth erupt at different rates and there is a “roller coaster” of tissue heights. Tissue can be added to the longer tooth to make it shorter. At other times, recession (stripping of the gum line) may have occurred leading to the longer looking tooth. Past periodontal surgery may also be the reason for the change. Tissue can be added to the root of the tooth to correct the height of the gum line.
ABOUT DR.Sayre-carstairs
WHO WE ARE
Dr. Sayre-Carstairs is a 1982 graduate of Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA. Her BA degree is in psychobiology and her research focused on olfaction. Tufts University in Boston, MA awarded Dr. Sayre-Carstairs her DMD degree in 1986 and she immediately moved to Los Angeles to enter the periodontal program at the University of Southern California.
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